...and am blown away by it. Absolutely amazing.
Now can anyone point me in the direction of similar artists/albums I might like.
Have also just acquired Cream Wheels Of fire and love that especially Crossroads. Seems you've discovered music from the british blues boom of the 60's. Well done - theres some fantastic stuff there and youre gonna enjoy loads of it.
You could try anything featuring Alexis Korner (like Mayall, he was another british blues pioneer who had many future stars in his line-ups). Ten Years After were a great band with the fantastic Alvin Lee on guitar. Peter Greens Fleetwood Mac have been mentioned, The Animals and The Pretty Things did some good blues stuff in their early days.
Personally, after I discovered all these british blues groups many years ago, I wanted to hear the stuff that influenced them. Thats when I discovered the brilliant classic american blues of Howlin Wolf, Muddy Waters, Sonny Boy Williamson etc.
Good luck, have fun discovering you own tastes, and enjoy your music!!! Try some :~
Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac
Greatest Hits {1971 album}
The Best Of {album}
The Vaudeville Years: 1968-1970 {double album}
Peter Green, John McVie, and Mick Fleetwood were all former members of John Mayall's Blues Breakers. Clapton appeared on Mayall's live 70th Birthday Concert CD, performing "All Your Lovin'" as if he was in the studio the first time they recorded the song. Chilling.
Early Fleetwood Mac, with Peter Green, Danny Kirwin and Jeremy Spencer on guitars is outstanding. Peter Green wrote "Black Magic" woman and their version is every bit as good as Santana's. It wasn't until he suffered mental illness and left the band that they changed direction to that weak pop-rock sound.
During that same period, Otis Rush, Magic Sam and Luther Allison were bringing a harder edge to Chicago blues. You may want to listen to some clips.
That same Fleetwood Mac stopped in Chicago long enough to record a nice LP with Otis Spann just before he died. They played as his backup band and Otis did all the vocals along with his usual brilliant piano work. Check out the so called "supergroups" of the late 60s early 70s. Wikipedia has a good listing.
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Supergroup (music)
List of progressive rock supergroups
A
The Adolescents
Adolf Satan (band)
Aina (band)
Alter Bridge
Army of Anyone
Asesino
Asia (band)
Astrobrite
Audioslave
Automatic Baby
Ayreon
B
BPM (band)
Babacar
Bad English
Bandaloo Doctors
Beck, Bogert & Appice
The Bens
Black Light Burns
Black President (band)
Blind Faith
The Boogie Kings
Boot Camp Clik
Borknagar
Bozzio Levin Stevens
Brides of Destruction
Broken Social Scene
Brujeria (band)
Burden Brothers
C
Cactus (band)
Captain Beyond
Carbon/Silicon
The Chavs
Circus Diablo
Colonel Claypool's Bucket of Bernie Brains
The Commission (hip hop)
Contraband (band)
Crazy Backwards Alphabet
Cream (band)
Crooklyn Dodgers
Crosby, Stills & Nash (and Young)
The Crowd (music)
The Crust Brothers
Cry Cry Cry (band)
D
The Damning Well
Damn Yankees (band)
Damnocracy
Daredevils (band)
Deltron 3030
Demons & Wizards
Derek and the Dominos
D cont.
The Dinosaurs
Dirty Little Rabbits
The Dirty Mac
The Dissociatives
Distance (band)
Down (band)
The Ducks
Dungeon Family
E
Electric Light Orchestra
Electronic (band)
Emerson, Lake & Palmer
Everyoned
Eyes Adrift
F
Faces (band)
Fant么mas (band)
The Firm (band)
For My Pain...
G
Gang Starr Foundation
General Public
The Glove
The Grays (band)
H
Hate You
Hater (band)
Havana 3am
Hazen Street
Head Wound City
The Highwaymen (country supergroup)
Humble Pie (band)
I
I (band)
K
Kikki, Bettan & Lotta
Kingdom of Sorrow
Kino (UK rock band)
Knoxville Girls
L
LSG
Liquid Tension Experiment
Liquid Trio Experiment
The Lords of the New Church
Lost Dogs
M
Mad Season
Mahlathini and the Mahotella Queens
Man-Raze
Me First and the Gimme Gimmes
Mechanical Poet
Mike + The Mechanics
Million Dollar Quartet
N
The Network
Neurotic Outsiders
The New Cars
Northern Lights (band)
O
OSI (band)
Only Crime
Oysterhead
P
Pailhead
P cont.
A Perfect Circle
Pigface
Planet X (band)
The Players (supergroup)
Power Station (band)
Purple Ribbon All-Stars
Puscifer
R
The Raconteurs
Roadrunner United
Rock Star Supernova
S
Shaye
Sinergy
Skin (Japanese band)
So Solid Crew
Some Girls (California band)
Son of Sam (band)
The Sound of Animals Fighting
Souther-Hillman-Furay Band
Starchildren
Stars on 54
Starvation/Tam Tam Pour L'Ethiopie
Strength In Numbers
Super Session
Los Super Seven
SuperGroup
Supershit 666
T
TGT (group)
Tabla Beat Science
The Tangent
Tapeworm (band)
Temple of the Dog
The Gak
The Last Hard Men
The Reindeer Section
This Mortal Coil
The Thorns
Three Legged Dogg
Transatlantic (band)
Traveling Wilburys
Tube Tops 2000
U
UK (band)
USA for Africa
V
Valley of the Giants
Vauvandalou
Velvet Revolver
Volcano (supergroup)
W
The Warzone (group)
World Classic Rockers
The Wrights
Wu-Tang Clan
X
XYZ (band)
Z
Zwan Try some American stuff.
Get ye some Willie Dixon! I got this Mayall album (tape) years after it came out and yes it is great. But I prefer the Cream Wheels Of Fire. I love Creams blues material (like Crossroads, Spoonful, Born Under A Bad Sign, etc.) but don't really care for their psychedelic sounding songs. They sound very dated as does most psychedelic music.
Some great blues / rock music is:
Allman Brothers - Live At The Fillmore East
Roy Buchanan - Second Album
Johnny Winter - Progressive Blues Experiment
Savoy Brown - Getting To The Point or Blue Matter
Mike Bloomfield - Essential Blues 1964-1969
Muddy Waters & Friends - Fathers And Sons
Stevie Ray Vaughn - (anything)
BB King - Live At The Regal Yes early Fleetwood Mac is an essential avenue to pass along in your pursuit of great early British Electric Blues. Funnily enough Peter Green was Clapton's replacement in the Bluesbreakers, and more than filled Clapton's boots, before leaving himself to form Fleetwood Mac. Now go for Led Zeppelin 1...
You have good taste. Peter Greens Fleetwood Mac
The Walter Trout Band The Peter Green replies are on the money. There is a greatest hits of Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac that I love and have linked. You might also want to try the Paul Butterfield Blues Band, John Hammond (Wicked Grin and his latest CD Push Comes to Shove) and Queen of the Blues Koko Taylor. Early Fleetwood Mac, Savoy Brown, Bloodwyn Pig (includes the original guitarist for Jethro Tull), Rory Gallagher, T. Rex, and the Yardbirds. My favorite amp to use for gigs right now is based on the amp Eric Clapton used for that record, but is an updated and improved version - it sounds great! Paul Butterfields Blues band if you can find it, Guitar Boogie, it's eric clapton, jimmie page, and jeff beck. awsome! also, if you're just getting into blues, get buddy guy's Feels Like Rain. you will love it, i promise. cream-disraellie gears. not sure of the spelling,but the albums great >> As others here have already said ~ Early Fleetwood Mac with Peter Green ~~ great stuff.
>> (The short lived band) ~ Blind Faith ~ featuring Eric Clapton/Ginger Baker/Steve Winwood/Rick Grech
Ciao! If you liked the old Clapton, I bet you would like "The London Howlin' Wolf Sessions" . On it The Wolf is accompanied by Eric Clapton, Steve Winwood, Bill Wyman, & Charlie Watts. (the 1st two are from Blind Faith and of course the last two are from the Stones.) There is another cd that is fairly similar called "Muddy & The Wolf. The first six songs are by Muddy Waters accompanied by Otis Spann, Michael Bloomfield, & Paul Butterfield (to name 4) and the last 7 songs are by Howlin' Wolf with the same people as mentioned above with him. Another one that you might enjoy is by Rory Gallagher and the cd is called "A Blue Day For The Blues" it is a compilation of some of his better stuff from different albums and it rocks. There was another that you might find interesting called "Shoogie's Boogie, Shoogie Otis Plays The Blues" as long as it's that cd it's all blues. I got a couple of his other's and he kinda went Jazz - R&B route other than the cd I mentioned. Another great one is the Jimi Hendrix- "Blues" cd. A good way to check out some of these people is on Youtube. I was watching earlier on there and Eric Clapton was together with Buddy Guy. Of course Clapton always claimed Buddy Guy was the best guitar player period. On Youtube you might save yourself some money checking them out first. And while you are there check out Roy Buchanan, Lonnie Mack, and Johnny Winter. You can't barely go wrong on any of those. Excellent album never saw the breakers together but saw l mayall live Clapton by himself, in Cream (what a show)in Blind Faith, with Delaney & Bonnie & Friends and seveal more times by himself.
You might try Dave Mason and a little Robert Johnson. i agree with all of the above and would also add rory gallaher and jeff beck.
there are still some great exponents of this style of blues playing in the u.k.here is a link to just one of the bands
http://www.myspace.com/origanaltravs Hello,,Creedance Clearwater Revival, Montrose, Jimi Hendrix Experience, Hot Tuna. | 